With the help of photographs and archival film footage, Simon Rattle and the Birmingham Symphony guide viewers through 20th-century orchestral music in this DVD, which aims to place familiar pieces within a social and historical framework. Beginning in Vienna at the turn of the century, Rattle revisits a place and time that gave birth to a musical revolution. Works excerpted include Wagner's Tristan und Isolde, Schoenberg's Transfigured Night and Five Orchestral Pieces, Op. 16, Mahler's Symphony No. 7, Richard Strauss's Elektra, Berg's Violinkonzert, and Webern's Five Pieces for Orchestra.